[CQ-Contest] JA QSL Collecting Contest

[Barry]

Frivilous is in the ye of the beholder.  Many would call contesting 
frivilous.  Personally, I QSL 100% received for each band/mode 
contact ONCE. Interestingly,  I received a buro shipment last month 
and there were less JAs than usual. Look at the bright side - if you 
get a lot of JA cards, you can save money sending them direxctly to 
the JA buro yourself, rather than thru ARRL (for me it's usually DL 
and JA buros I sent to directly). For example 1 lb. to JA costs $4.05 
direct vs. $8 via ARRL and 2 lbs costs $6.65 direct vs. $16 via ARRL.
Barry W2UP

On 14 Jan 2004 n6ki at juno.com wrote:

> This is a copy of a letter I recently sent to ARRL 
> 
> 
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
>  This is a matter that concerns me and many other radio amateurs
> who QSL religiously and receive many JA QSL cards from contests.	
> 
>  I had heard rumor that MANY Japanese amateurs were involved in
> obtaining as many non JA QSL cards from hams all over the world for
> some sort of contest. It gets to be very annoying, expensive and time
> consuming to send QSL cards to the same guy many times over for same
> BAND/MODE contacts!!!
> 
> Here is what is written on a QSL card recently received from JA2OLJ
> 
> ....."Please send me your QSL Card for the Award that is the greatest
> One in Japan named Sekai 10,000 KYOKU YOMIURI AWARD. The Award needs
> 10,000 cards or more from many DX stations without JA"
> 
>  At this point I am inclined to ignore all JA cards that do not arrive
> with S.A.S.E., IRCs or Green Stamps
> 
>  I see no inherent value for anyone other than the JA stations
> collecting QSL cards for a frivolous award.
> 
> 73, Dennis Vernacchia N6KI
> San Diego
> 
> P.S. - I see on his card that this card to me was #48,183....I am sure
> the QSL printers are the only ones that are happy and benefiting from
> this	
> 
> 
> 
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up at mindspring.com
Newtown, PA                     Frankford Radio Club